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August 5th, 2010
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Amélie’s French Bakery just signed the lease on a new location uptown, at the base of 330 S. Tryon (or as you might know it, right below the big “Charlotte Chamber” sign).
They’ll be serving pre-packaged sandwiches and salads, select pastries, and of course, coffee, tea, etc.
They won’t be strictly 24/7, instead saying they’ll have “event-driven hours”, in other words, staying open if people are there.
I ran uptown to scope out the location, and happened to find owner Lynn St. Laurent, who said she had been there since 6am. She showed me inside and let me take some video to share here.
Lynn says they’re aiming to open on September 1st, though it might be sooner.
Thanks to @UD400, who tipped us off on the location through Twitter.
#IgniteCLT was last night at The Neighborhood Theatre in the heart of NoDa. Local visionaries and tech nerds gathered to be inspired and, if you weren’t there, you missed a killer version of Happy Birthday being sung to presenter Becky Knight. It’s not often you get to hear 200+ people sing Happy Birthday to a community member. It was awesome. The whole night was fantastic.
Here are some highlights from the first iteration of Ignite Charlotte:
Jim Van Fleet (aka: Professor Sideburns) provided a killer list of resources for startups during his talk called Starting Charlotte’s Future. But,he says, “First things first, we’ve got to start talking about it!” and here are some online places Jim recommends to find people to talk with and/or get your startup funded:
Wed3,IMAF,Self-help, @cltlaunch, Area Fifteen, Startup Weekend Charlotte, meetup.com
“Webinars that don’t suck” actually didn’t suck even though it was about webinars which are possibly the bane of any office worker’s existence at some point or another in their career. @dawnladams and @techherding kept it engaging!
Dwayne Waite was by far the best dressed there, hands down. He gave a clever presentation called Setting the Record Straight: The Real Retrosexual Male.
Warren Cooksey did a fine job of educating the crowd on how to instruct their government and how to lobby well and presented some great real life pics of his work as a city council person.
Rajeev Kulkarni made everyone’s brains bubble (in a good way!) with his talk on 3D printing.
I was so excited after learning Lemonade Day is coming to Charlotte May 1st, 2011! They’re all about teaching kids entrepreneurial skills, who can’t support that?? They’re new and just getting started but here’s their twitter name: @lemonadedayclt
Dave Bell, the Camping Services Director with Charlotte YMCA and summer camp evangelist behind @campleadership, told us how camp councilors make the best, most awesome employees ever.
Local social media favorite Adam Holden-Bache wowed everyone with his great infographics during his informative talk called The Problem with Data and Statistics.
Here’s the entire speaker list, everyone who presented did an amazing job! Check it out!
On Wednesday, June 30th, the world celebrated ‘Social Media Day’ (#smday). Created and sponsored by Mashable, social media evangelists from all over the world scheduled meet-ups throughout the day to celebrate “media becoming social”.
Charlotte celebrated @AreaFifteen, a business incubator in Optimist Park, with a working lunch. Loosely formatted, local area business owners and working twitterati enjoyed lunch and conversation about how they’ve been utilizing social media in their business and personal lives.
Our local sponsors included small business owners Dwayne & John from @CharlotteAgency and Summer from @Felicitea. They readily shared how they’ve used social media to help grow their businesses; noting challenges and successes. Also in attendance were local celebrity clothing designer William Wilson @TheClothier; real estate broker @MatthewTringali of Group 15 Real Estate; and myself @thefriendraiser, social media specialist for Charlotte Mecklenburg Library @cmlibrary.
The highlight of the lunch was the introduction of a new local event, Ignite Charlotte, that asks you to “enlighten us, but make it quick” to be held on August 4th at the Neighborhood Theatre in NoDa. Previously hosted in Paris, Austin, New Orleans, and Raleigh; Charlotte’s 1st event is poised to ignite our creative community.
All in all, the first ‘Social Media Day’ we had a great lunch, learned from others, and shared insights. If you would like to become more involved in the social media scene in Charlotte, follow these hashtags to for upcoming events: #smbclt, #clttweetup or #barcampclt.
Mashable’s Pete Cashmore hopes to announce more ‘social media day’ events in the future, building off of the momentum of grassroots social media events like tweet-ups, bar camp, word camp and more.
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One week before I went to Pickles Farmers Market in NoDa, I was at the farmers market in Modena, Italy. My parents moved there a year ago for my dad’s job, and we were there to visit.
The market in Modena wasn’t your typical temporary, tent and stall kind of market. This was the real deal—butchers, bakers, farmers, all set up side by side in a huge building. The market was bustling with people, most of which depended on the local goods they bought. We hit a baker’s stall and my dad pointed to a number of tags that signified bundles for locals who bought the same goods every week—they were the valued customers, he told me. It was fun to see the regulars come up, rattle off some Italian and walk away with “the usual.”
So what’s all that have to do with Pickles? According to Cindy Hart, who co-owns Hart Witzen Gallery, the building housing the market on 36th Street, the lively feel of an overseas farmers market is what they’re aiming for with Pickles.
“I’m a big world traveler, and those overseas markets are so fascinating,” Hart said. “I like the markets in France and Korea. They’re in the middle of town, and everyone goes to get everything they need.”
Hart told me the gallery location was temporary and that they’d like to make a permanent move to the building across the street, which she and her business partner, Clayton Venhuizen, also own.
“Right now, it’s just on Saturdays, but eventually we’d like to make it an everyday thing, where regulars can have stalls with electricity and sell their goods to the community,” Hart said.
After an hour or so perusing the small, yet eclectic, mix of goods at Pickles, I’d say they’re on their way. There were people selling local fruits and veggies, salsa, coffee, beer, hand crafted bags and more. Hart said by 9:30, one of the vendors sold all of his fruit and had to go get more.
There were still a lot of empty stalls in the room, but I don’t think it will stay that way for long. Vendors pay just $10 a week for a space, and Hart is actively recruiting more vendors through Facebook and the Pickles website.
Emma Wallace, the nice young woman who sold me a lovely hand-made owl stuffed with lavender and rice, said she usually sells her stuff online through etsy.com. Then she heard about Pickles through Facebook.
“It was only $10 for a space and five more for a table, so I thought I’d come and give it a try,” Wallace said. “It’s going well so far.”
Pickles is open on Saturdays from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
One week before I went to Pickles Farmers Market in NoDa, I was at the farmers market in Modena, Italy. My parents moved there a year ago for my dad’s job, and we were there to visit.
The market in Modena wasn’t your typical temporary, tent and stall kind of market. This was the real deal—butchers, bakers, farmers, all set up side by side in a huge building. The market was bustling with people, most of which depended on the local goods they bought. We hit a baker’s stall and my dad pointed to a number of tags that signified bundles for locals who bought the same goods every week—they were the valued customers, he told me. It was fun to see the regulars come up, rattle off some Italian and walk away with “the usual.”
So what’s all that have to do with Pickles? According to Cindy Hart, who co-owns Hart Witzen Gallery, the building housing the market on 36th Street, the lively feel of an overseas farmers market is what they’re aiming for with Pickles.
“I’m a big world traveler, and those overseas markets are so fascinating,” Hart said. “I like the markets in France and Korea. They’re in the middle of town, and everyone goes to get everything they need.”
Hart told me the gallery location was temporary and that they’d like to make a permanent move to the building across the street, which she and her business partner, Clayton Venhuizen, also own.
“Right now, it’s just on Saturdays, but eventually we’d like to make it an everyday thing, where regulars can have stalls with electricity and sell their goods to the community,” Hart said.
After an hour or so perusing the small, yet eclectic, mix of goods at Pickles, I’d say they’re on their way. There were people selling local fruits and veggies, salsa, coffee, beer, hand crafted bags and more. Hart said by 9:30, one of the vendors sold all of his fruit and had to go get more.
There were still a lot of empty stalls in the room, but I don’t think it will stay that way for long. Vendors pay just $10 a week for a space, and Hart is actively recruiting more vendors through Facebook and the Pickles website.
Emma Wallace, the nice young woman who sold me a lovely hand-made owl stuffed with lavender and rice, said she usually sells her stuff online through etsy.com. Then she heard about Pickles through Facebook.
“It was only $10 for a space and five more for a table, so I thought I’d come and give it a try,” Wallace said. “It’s going well so far.”
Pickles is open on Saturdays from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.